Year 2 Literacy Workshop
Grammar
Reading at home
Ways to support your child’s reading:
• Read stories together for pleasure.
• Read their reading books.
- decode words together
- hunt for keywords in text
- talk about what they have read
- talk about the meaning of words and alternatives
• Bug Club
• Keywords
Vocabulary
30,000 words a day
18 times a day
Vocabulary
noun
adverb
sprinted
mammal
stumbled
run
cat
fall
Spelling in Year 2
Spellings form an important part of supporting your child towards achieving ARE
(age related expectations)
Reading
Writing
Writing in Year 2
• Practise and learn weekly spelling lists – make it fun!
• Encourage opportunities for writing, such as letters to family or friends, shopping lists, notes or reminders, stories or poems.
• Write together – be a good role model for writing.
• Encourage use of a dictionary to check spelling.
• Allow your child to use a computer for word processing, which will allow for editing and correcting of errors without lots of crossing out.
• Remember that good readers become good writers! Identify good writing features when reading (e.g. vocabulary, sentence structure, punctuation).
• Show your appreciation: praise and encourage, even for small successes!